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Environmental dynamics of the Baraba forest-steppe (Siberia) over the last 8000 years and their impact on the types of economic life of the population

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dc.contributor.author Zhilich S.
dc.contributor.author Rudaya N.
dc.contributor.author Krivonogov S.
dc.contributor.author Nazarova L.
dc.contributor.author Pozdnyakov D.
dc.date.accessioned 2018-09-19T20:28:29Z
dc.date.available 2018-09-19T20:28:29Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.issn 0277-3791
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/142937
dc.description.abstract © 2017 Elsevier LtdThis article offers a reconstruction of the vegetation and climate of the south-western Siberian Baraba forest-steppe area during the last ca. 8000 years. The analysis of palynological data from the sediment core of Lake Bolshie Toroki using quantitative methods has made it possible to reconstruct changes of the dominant types of vegetation and mean July air temperatures. Coniferous forests grew in the vicinity of the lake, and mean July air temperatures were similar to present-day ones between 7.9 and 7.0 kyr BP. The warmest and driest climate occurred at 7.0–5.0 kyr BP. At that time, the region had open steppe landscapes; birch groves began to spread. A cooling trend is seen after 5.5 kyr BP, when forest-steppe began to emerge. Steppe communities started to dominate again after 1.5 kyr BP. Mean July air temperatures lower than now are reconstructed for the period of 1.9–1 kyr BP, and then the temperatures became similar to present-day ones. Comparing the archaeological data on the types of economy of the population which inhabited the Baraba forest-steppe with the data on changes in the natural environment revealed a connection between the gradual transition from hunting and fishing to livestock breeding and the development of forest-steppe landscapes with a decrease in the area covered by forests. The development of the forest-steppe as an ecotonic landscape starting around 5 kyr BP might have contributed to the coexistence of several archaeological cultures with different types of economy on the same territory.
dc.relation.ispartofseries Quaternary Science Reviews
dc.subject Archaeology
dc.subject Baraba forest-steppe
dc.subject Climate dynamics
dc.subject Holocene
dc.subject Russia
dc.subject Transfer function
dc.subject Vegetation dynamics
dc.title Environmental dynamics of the Baraba forest-steppe (Siberia) over the last 8000 years and their impact on the types of economic life of the population
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 163
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.relation.startpage 152
dc.source.id SCOPUS02773791-2017-163-SID85016153567


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